NEWS FROM
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF

2000 News Releases

December 22, 2000

• Let Santa Pass The Checkpoint: Children of Bethlehem Pray for Peace
• Kakuma Camp in Kenya Faces Financial Crisis
• The Year 2000 As Told By The Numbers
  

November 13, 2000

• Debt Relief for Poor Countries Finally Gets US Funding
• Solid Private Support Earns National Rating for Lutheran World Relief

November 10, 2000

• Amid Missile Strikes on Shepherds Field: "We Are Trying To Help Children Keep Their Smile."
• Palestinian Casualty Figures Continue a Trend: Upper Body Injuries and, Now, 1,500 Disabled

October 19, 2000

• A "Mustard Seed" Movement for Debt Relief Becomes a "Big Tree"
• For Suffering People in Serbia, Democracy May be Near But so is Winter

October 18, 2000

• Crisis Mode and Wariness Prevail at Palestinian Projects; Larger Worries Loom
• Alert for Ebola Outbreak, Uganda Aid Work Will Continue

October 6, 2000

• Jerusalem Hospital Needs More Medicines for Causualties, LWR Responds

October 3, 2000

• At One Palestinian Hospital, Injuries are "Report Card" on New Levels of Violence
• West Bengal Flood Relief is in Progress
• Board Reviews Work in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Future

September 27, 2000

• Needed: Finish the Job on Landmines, Ban 'Conflict' Diamonds
• Parish Pitches In, Sets Possible World Record in the Non-Olympic Sport of Assembling Quilts
• North Korea, India, Venezuela Receiving Disaster and Recovery Aid
• More than Elephants and Zebras: LWR Study Visit Sees an Africa Few Tourists See
• After the Flood, Days in a Tree and Months Starting Over

August 16, 2000

• Lutheran World Relief Calls for End to Sudan Bombing
• 4,000 New Homes in Rwanda, But in One of Them Petronia Still Has Nightmares

July 27, 2000

• A Kosovo Safe House Offers Women Escape From Bondage
• Fighting Abuse, A Refugee Women's Group Now Feels "A Little Okay"
• New Program Tackles Kenya's Terrible Drought in One Dry Place
• In Two Sudanese Counties Times Are Good Enough to Offer More And More
• People Work, for Food
• Mozambique Flood Aid Shifts From Relief to Recovery
• Be It Resolved: Please Drink This Good Coffee

July 7, 2000

• Food Pledges Near Goal And Distribution Is Extensive, But Quantities Of Aid Are Still Lower Than Needed
• Grassroots Summit Builds Civil Peace In Sudan
• People's Participation, Land Use Shapes New Philippines Projects
• Kosovo Aid Effort Marks One Year, 200,000 Beneficiaries
• The ?Quilt? On The Plaza Draws Good Samaritan Tributes

June 9, 2000

• Refugee Youth Camp In Kenya Recieves $1.2 Million In Aid
• Beating Ethiopia's Drought With Irrigation At $50 Per Person, Plus Labor
• Ethiopia Aid Update: Improvements Now, Warnings Ahead
• LWR Receives Christian Service Award
• Board Elects New ELCA Member, Takes Long-Term Steps

May 18, 2000

• Action Is Needed Now To Help Senate Fund Debt Relief
• Weather, Logistics And Now War Complicate And Delay Ethiopian Food Aid
• Drought, And Its Relief, Cuts A Swathe From Kenya To India
• Women, Youth To Make Long-Term Recovery From Turkey Earthquake

May 4, 2000

• Food in Quantity to Reach Hungry People Within Days, With Much More Aid Ahead
• Some Farm Families Are Foiling The Food Crisis in Ethiopia
• Northern Ethiopia Waits in Vain for Rain
• Help Brings What Faithful Farmers Never Lose- Hope
• LWR To Dedicate Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza

April 26, 2000

• Waiting to Die in Southern Ethiopia
• Why Another Drought in Ethiopia?

April 18, 2000

• Ethiopia Food Aid Beginning; Dollar Will Go A Long Way
• North Korea Visit Finds Food Holding Out This Spring
• "Jubilee 2000" Advocates Surround, Then Lobby Congress
• Mass Circulation Magazine Features Prolific Quilters

April 6, 2000

• Food Crisis Looms in the Horn of Africa: Lutheran World Relief Supporting Early Effort to Feed 765,000 People
• With Spring Comes Fresh Help for Families, Communities in Kosovo

March 4, 2000

• Church-Sponsored Relief Flights for Mozambique Begin Tomorrow

March 3, 2000

• Church-Sponsored Relief Flights for Mozambique Begin Tomorrow
• One Woman Ready to Name Her Baby After the Floods; 600 Mozambican Families Ready to Build New Lives
• Facts About the Flooding, and Mozambique, as of March 3, 2000

March 1, 2000

• 100,000 Await Rescue in Mozambique - On Church Roofs and Bridges.
• Lutheran World Relief is Helping Mozambique, South Africa Flood Survivors with Food, Shelter, Blankets.
• Alarms are Sounding Over Growing Food Shortage in Ethiopia; LWR Taking Action.
• April 9 Washington Rally Will Call for Jubilee Action on Poor Country Debt.

February 16, 2000

• LWR Aid Activity Nearly Doubles, In Dollar Terms, In 1999
• Board Elects Bishop Wennes As New Chair, Other Officers, Plus Hewitt And Cooper-White As New Members
• Earthquake Aid Helps Survivors Through Winter And Beyond
• Rebuild Or Relocate? Venezuelan Flood Survivors And Church Helpers Face Growing Dilemma

January 14, 2000

• Giving U.S. Food to Sudan Rebel Groups is "Untenable"
• Parishioners Provided a $26,000 Christmas Bonus to Workers Overseas
• A Field Made Safe and Thousands Fed; Kosovo Serbia Aid Continues
• Win-Win Solution Found By Palestinian School

 

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